>> the parting shot with bill press, this is "the bill press show." >> hey, just enough time to repeat our top story of this hour. if you thought gun ownership in this country was increasing, you are wrong. gun ownership has really gone down dramatically from 50% of american households owning a gun in the 1970s to only 34% in 2012, which just proves that the nra is not as powerful as we thought. it should be possible to pass some good, strong gun safety legislation in this country and do it this year. hey, folks go out and have a good monday. come back here and see us tomorrow. have a gun one. >> this is "the bill press

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[ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> stephanie: happy monday morning, jacki schechner. look what i got you. eye candy. hal sparks is filling in for jim ward today. >> ooh, good thing i worked out extra yesterday. >> stephanie: you and melissa fitzgerald and i went spinning yesterday. >> we did. >> stephanie: she will be here in about an hour. the truffle will be reunited. >> it is sad when we can't go a day without each other. >> can we re-create that experience? i'll play the bike. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: little sexy liberal sandwich between melissa and i. >> my hands can be the pedals.

we'll work it out. >> stephanie: "l.a. times," things to watch while john is on vacation. is that stephanie miller? why thank you "l.a. times." you like me. you really like me. >> we've got wonder woman on today. lynda carter. [ ding ding ] [ applause ] >> stephanie: i gotta get some bracelets. here she is, jacki schechner my wonder woman in the current news center. >> president obama is planning to head up to the hill to meet with democratic and republican caucuses in both the house and the senate separately. it is latest step in his step to circumvent republican leadership which has been stub stubborn. he's trying to cut the sequester cuts already impacting the economy. paul ryan plans to release his latest proposal this week and early reports indicate it will be just as useless as his past proposals because he's got a blueprint that would repeal

healthcare reform in addition to remaining medicare and curbing the growth of medicaid by $770 billion over the last decade. the president is also planning to reach out to supporters and volunteers at a dinner wednesday night. organizing for action, the nonprofit that was created out of the president's re-election organization. it's holding a two-day summit in d.c. his appearance comes in the wake of accusations that donations by foa provides access but the truth was laid out in an op-ed saying the group will report all donations greater than $250,000. it will not take money from federal lobbyists or foreign interests. if you have a question for the first lady about her let's move initiative, you can hop on twitter today at 11:15 eastern time. mrs. obama is going to be online with answers. it will be under the hashtag ask

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>> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, it's "the stephanie miller show." ♪ i'm walkin' on sunshine ♪ ♪ i'm walkin' on sunshine ♪ ♪ and it's time to feel good ♪ ♪ hey, all right now ♪ ♪ and it's time to feel good ♪ >> stephanie: woo-hoo it is the "the stephanie miller show." welcome to it. happy monday. six minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-12. why, jim, huh? [ ♪ dramatic ♪ ] >> hal: what is that? >> stephanie: it's like bewitched. somebody replaced my darren. hal sparks is filling in for jim

ward. >> i don't know if i'm dick sergeant or dick york. >> dick york was the latter one. [ scooby-doo's "huh?" ] >> stephanie: i think it would have been funnier if i didn't notice all three hours just like samantha. anyway jim. >> hal: someone else says i'm not -- coughs over by correcting you. [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] >> stephanie: do we have a show today or do we have a show? >> it's packed. >> stephanie: wonder woman lynda carter is on the show! >> very exciting. [wonder woman theme song] >> stephanie: you told the most totes adorbs story. >> hal: true story. when i was a kid living in kentucky i had a huge painful spine curling -- >> stephanie: me too. >> crush on lynda carter. >> stephanie: i only had mary or bionic woman. >> yours was a junior dike version. >> stephanie: that's why it's so cute. >> so i figured out a scheme to

call her because i needed to talk to her. >> stephanie: the bionic man -- >> the $6 million man. hello. that was the noise i made. anyways, so i called -- i think somewhere in the order of 35 different phone numbers long distance at 7 years old and i finally got to the set phone while they were shooting the show. they were shooting wonder woman. posing as her lawyer's son and saying it was my birthday and my dad said it was okay if i called. because i figured if i could get her on the phone that's all i needed. and apparently she couldn't come to the phone. she was in the middle of spinning or something. not class. the actual turning into a super hero. then my parents came home and i had written on a note card all of the phone numbers that i called. i was so busted. but on the other side of the card, i had written the last two. i said i only called these numbers and i was technically

telling the truth because i was holding the card in my hand. [ wah wah ] then i didn't realize the bill would come later. >> long distance, too. >> stephanie: i guess you did not know that you would grow up to know stephanie miller and be able to meet lynda carter. >> over the phone. >> stephanie: i can get her on the phone for him see? >> can you get erin gray on the phone from buck rogers? >> stephanie: patience, grasshopper. >> in her silver jumpsuit? >> you keep setting them up, i'll keep knocking them down. >> stephanie: all things come true when you know -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> erin gray was probably a little too beyond your -- because that was the '80s. >> stephanie: who is erin gray? >> wilma dearing on buck rogers. >> even i had a crush on her. >> stephanie: okay. >> when i was 9 -- i met her when i was 9 at a car show.

you can see the look on my face like this is the first time i've had this kind of experience. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: all right. again, speaking of smokin' hot chicks, hot brie, melissa fitzgerald activist extraordinaire right in that seat in like an hour. snot hot brie on with -- ♪ hot brie on with stephi ♪ >> stephanie: i saw the correspondence between her and travis and we're talking about the booking and uganda. travis shared his recipe for hot brie. all right. 7:30 live in the studio. don't overbake the filo dough. >> amongst the tragedies going on in you on uganda. >> stephanie: make sure it bubbles over. >> he's right though. he's right. >> stephanie: sexy liberal all three hours. speaking of sexy liberals, it is happening, kids, it is coming up fast!

♪ look at all the sexy liberals ♪ ♪ i look at all the sexy liberals ♪ ♪ stephanie miller takes a flight to the windy city ♪ ♪ with babies between ♪ ♪ drinking some wine she keeps in a box by the door ♪ ♪ that's what it's for ♪ ♪ all the sexy liberals ♪ ♪ where do they all come from ♪ ♪ all the sexy liberals, chicago's where they'll come ♪ >> oh, yeah! >> stephanie: thank you rocky mountain mike. >> that was beautiful. that was rocky mountain mike. >> stephanie: we got another one from audra too i believe. >> that one says that i'm going to the sexy liberal show and i'm not. [ buzzer ] >> if we play that, that's a

lie. >> hal: why not! >> stephanie: tsa is allowing knives now. why not go! [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] >> it is exactly like escape from new york. you can have the same weapons they allow escape from new york. >> stephanie: i saw the story in the "l.a. times" over the weekend. tsa asked to reconsider move allowing small knives on planes. what could go wrong? a move by federal officials to allow passengers to board airlines has sparked backlash by airline workers. the union representing air marshals joined pilots and attend assents to reconsider its list of prohibited carry on items. more than 12,000 people have signed an online petition urging president obama to keep knives off planes. here are the fun facts i loved in the article. the tsa as we know, this was last week. they said it would allow air travels to board u.s. aircraft with small folding knives, golf

clubs, novelty bats -- >> what's? >> stephanie: i don't know. hang on. hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and pool cues. >> that's okay. the novelty bats, you gotta draw the line somewhere. >> stephanie: how often is someone going to break a pool cue over your head. >> the novelty bats are kid size often are pens. if you go to louisville, kentucky and you get a louisville slugger -- aused to go to dodger games when i was a kid. >> if you can hijack a plane with a novelty bat, you kind of deserve the plane. >> stephanie: i think i'm going to get liquored up and hit someone with a novelty bat on the way to chicago. >> it is too loud a noise. you need a little -- yeah, there you go! take this! turn this plane around. we're going to dell lago.

>> stephanie: i said hurry! >> stephanie: okay. the agency said the move which would take effect april 25th was aimed at freeing up security officials to focus on bigger threats. >> bigger than a novelty bat? >> stephanie: the more freedom to hit someone on the head with a knowlety bat. >> i don't want knives. i do want to bring my shampoo. is that too much to ask? >> stephanie: no, i will hit with you a lacrosse stick. smack you in the head. >> with a lacrosse stick. again, if you can take -- >> stephanie: hot brie said she had a friend whose actual last name was mafia. he used to travel with a hockey stick in his trunk for when there was trouble. i don't think it is a good idea. >> trouble playing hockey? >> stephanie: no, trouble, he would just get it out. right. exactly. >> hockey sticks on planes?

i don't think it is a good idea. >> well, here's the problem. this happened -- musicians will tell you about this. you couldn't bring stringed instruments on for awhile because somebody might loosen the key string on the guitar and use it to -- no violins. people were having to put these half a million violins in hold. >> garroted the stewardess with a string. >> all of the sports teams touring around are having to put their stuff in the hold and their stuff gets lost and games forfeit because a big plastic stick is not allowed. >> stephanie: thank you so much "l.a. times." >> it is on your facebook page. >> stephanie: it is going to be a long, dull summer without jon stewart. top things you might watch. >> no offense, john olver. >> stephanie: giant picture of

mama. thank you "l.a. times." here's a look at the competitor who stand to pick up ground in stewart's absence. [ ♪ dramatic ♪ ] or i might be one of the long shots. >> no, you're number three. >> stephanie: i'm number three. okay. thank you "l.a. times." [ applause ] >> stephanie: all right. >> lovely. >> stephanie: you know i don't like to name drop. >> yeah, sting told you not to. >> stephanie: so because hal's a musician, i -- and hot brie -- she got to go with me. we got to hang out with -- [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] steven stills friday night again. listen to his new album and he played guitar with it. that was the best seat ever for a cosby stills concert. he was right there. i was right here. we were kind of in heaven. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] it was pretty awesome. >> what's the contact buzz? >> i'm sure there was one. >> i don't think he smoked in 20

years. i doesn't have to. there was a period of time, it just emanates. kind of puffs off of him. >> stephanie: no it does not either. >> like the bags gymnasts use you give them a hug and poof. >> stephanie: i can confirm that. >> steven stills, everyone gets high for a block and a half. i'm kidding. that's not what happens. i'm just being silly. >> stephanie: when we come back someone with an even more exciting weekend than me. vibrating til gets stuck up his -- and a live tweet. >> he posted pictures, too. >> they were a little blurry and it is hard to aim. >> stephanie: right. we'll talk about much more as we continue. 17 minutes after the hour. it's "the stephanie miller show." >> i got her number off the men's room stall. 1-800-steph-12.

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♪ one night in bangkok ♪ ♪ can't be too careful with your company ♪ ♪ i can feel the devil walking next to ♪ >> stephanie miller. ♪ i kept my kicks above the waistline, sunshine ♪ >> stephanie: it is "the stephanie miller show." sadly. that's not my choice. i can't get any below the waistline. >> i'm sure if you put the word out there you're looking for a little something something. >> chicago sexy liberal. >> stephanie: hello. kicks below the waistline. take a number. >> one night in chicago. >> stephanie: makes a hard man humble. okay. 22 minutes after the hour.

hal sparks in for jim ward today. he's off on a voice job. we have rude pundit coming up. eric boehlert. >> a voice job? >> this is a job. >> stephanie: this is just a hobby. >> he found a job where he can sleep in. >> stephanie: can i tell you one thing? >> what? >> stephanie: ask hot brie in about an hour, jim ward left the funniest phone message. we played some of his phone messages. we have one. >> really? >> stephanie: his voice message -- >> i'm not leaving messages for you people ever again. >> stephanie: usually with a lot of voices. but anyway, he had some thoughts chris about road flare mary that couldn't be shared -- i couldn't send this to you because of the fcc. okay. >> tired of hearing from her? >> stephanie: she said mean things about him last week. i think maybe we shouldn't talk to mary anymore because i might say this and it went on about five minutes. a lot of use of a certain word.

hilarious. >> i would like you to forward it to me for my own entertainment. >> stephanie: i played it for hot brie. we had to stop the car because we were laughing so hard. this was one from a few years ago. >> first new message sent yesterday at 8:09 p.m. >> what are you wearing? she's got some big ole [ bleep ] um it's jim. >> bail out early. i -- hmm. we've got a power outage here and my computer does not work. so i cannot look at the things that you sent me with the things. so i'm flying blind tomorrow.

well, ya know, no big deal. no big whoop. i do have a battery-powered alarm clock so i should be up in time. [ laughter ] anyway. i think the power will be on again tomorrow morning. there was apparently an underground explosion. who is underground? dick cheney. bum bum bum. see you tomorrow. i'm pretty much on vacation already, i guess. all right. bye. >> hi, there hello. how are you? >> end of message. [ applause ] >> that was epic. >> yeah. >> stephanie: conspiracy corner in there. >> par for the course. i think. seemingly. by the way, all of those messages will be available soon in the stephanie miller digital

archives available on itunes. all of those great singular moments. >> stephanie: someone had an even more exciting weekend than did i. >> oh, yeah, this guy. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] >> stephanie: social media allows you to share and share and share. the headline is oversharing dude gets vibrating. >> sex toy -- adult toy -- >> stephanie: trip to the e.r. i'm not sure why people feel the need to do this. guess who has one -- and a vibrating -- up his -- twitter user snow mange is his handle as the kids say. >> it was like his initials at the end then it turned out to be snow mange but he still doesn't understand it. >> stephanie: he announced to several hundred twitter followers, a number that grew exponentially thereafter. he somehow managed to get a

vibrating -- stuck inside his body and needed medical assistance to remove it. his first one was yo, guess who has to go to the hospital because he shoved a [ bleep ] up his [ bleep ] answer, it's me. >> i love he started with yo. >> stephanie: guess what all. my favorite tweet later i looked at the woman in the e.r. desk dead in the eye and said there is no other way to put this. i have a vibrating [ bleep ] inside my [ bleep ] all caps. he said oh, my god the nurse just told me there was another patient right here who also shoved [ bleep ] up his [ bleep ] life lesson, when using a vibrating [ bleep ] attach the string to the end. >> he said the battery lasted seven hours. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: now that's an exciting weekend. >> a new energizer bunny.

and just have him walking by in the background. is my phone going off? no that's gary. going and going and going. >> stephanie: his name is gary. gary, what did you shove up your [ bleep ] again. >> i have no evidence of this but i personally believe he blacked out early and the paramedics were doing the tweeting for him. >> stephanie: i'll take over for you! laura in pennsylvania. welcome. >> caller: hi, stephanie. i have something -- and everybody else too. i have something very important to say to the american people. i watched ed schultz's show the other night and bernie sanders was on. let me tell you bernie said -- all about the big three. social security, medicare and medicaid. they want to take it away and it doesn't look good for us. and what i didn't know before was it affects not only us

senior citizens but it affects the veterans who fought in the war and it affects their wit doughs. it -- widows. it affects the guys and girls who came back with no arms or legs. we have been paying into this forever. he said there's $2.7 trillion in there and there's no reason they should want this money something we paid for. obama has me scared to death. because i campaigned for him. i'll tell you right now, a lot of people and i'm still campaigning because of this, they said that there will be a war. people told me they aren't going to steal my money. we'll have a revolution. i said ya know, i said nobody's more scared than i am. >> stephanie: laura hal andry going to address this when we come back with rude pundit. right back on "the stephanie miller show." criticizing, and holding policy to the fire.

are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. staying in tough with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them, right? vo: the war room tonight at 6 eastern

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>> how old do you think i am? >> i don't know. 29. >> wow. you are good at guessing ages. i am exactly 29. >> stephanie: it is the "the stephanie miller show." hal sparks in for jim ward today. so before the break, a woman calls scared to death about entitlements, what the president is going to do. >> hal: the issue for a lot of people is unfortunately on the republican side, bringing up entitlement reform means cutting them and getting rid of them. and bringing up entitlement reform on the democratic side means refining and making them better over time. now, it is an expensive part of

our budget facility is huge. it is growing because of the aging population, a wa of aging population specifically the baby boomers, the cost will go up for awhile and then it will level off again and even out. but for all practical purposes, the trust fund is solvent until 2038. inity current form. >> stephanie: she was saying bernie sanders was on. he speaks so eloquently on the subject about trying to say we're not in crisis. this is what george bush tried when he said we have to privatize it now. it is not in crisis. >> that is the biggest false like information push that's been -- they've been doing it for three, four decades now. that the first part was when reagan was releasing lps against medicaid and social security and these kinds of things. socialized -- the socialism of march in america. people would gather around and play an album of ronald reagan going this is the worst thing that could ever happen to america and it would bankrupt us

and it didn't. there are refinements that can be made because as medical advancements are made, you can go back in and go why are we paying all of this money at this point when we can actually pay a lot less at this point and people will get healthier and not die of that. so you're not spending all of this money in end of life care when this is preventable diseases so the refinements that the democrats are talking about and that the president are talking about are legitimate ways to fix it that way. what the republicans want to do is get rid of it. >> stephanie: paul ryan, he's back again with his voucher plan. but no! just lost in a landslide. >> it assumes the repeal of obamacare. >> that's coming enough -- up. >> stephanie: good morning

papa. >> good morning. so are you going to be on "the view" because it seems like there is a perfect slot for you to slide in there. >> replacing elizabeth? >> stephanie: joy behar is leaving as well. it has been proposed. chris can't live without me. i would have to move to new york. >> i would move to new york. >> stephanie: you're not invited. >> wow! >> stephanie: rudeness, i love your stuff on random observations on rand paul's filibuster. it is improvey senator rand paul is talking but mostly rand paul [ bleep ] watching people support that bastard who looks like he smoked a bong [ bleep ] blowup doll in his office because this one side is like listening to someone say

how cool it is when the westboro baptist church shows up to protest things you hate, too. you summed it up perfectly. >> great, he's bringing this to the attention of the public and later to fund raise on it. but you know, who doesn't? and but yeah. everybody forgot that this is rand freakin' paul. fetal personhood paul. >> phony libertarian that he is. he's such a libertarian he's against gay marriage. >> stephanie: i would have filibustered longer to keep black people away from your lunch counter. >> he would have worn the depends so he wouldn't have had to take a -- i'm going to go with dump after 13 hours. because you know what? taking a leak is just too easy. i want it to be rand paul suddenly realize he had to have a screaming bowel movement in the senate bathroom after this. >> hal: he did. that's why they let ted cruz

talk. that is it. >> stephanie: that's the equivalent of a screaming pile of [ bleep ] [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] also laura your state sucks arkansas sucks because your legislature hates women. just to wrap your mind around this overriding the veto. to ban abortion after weeks to get the supreme court to revisit roe v. wade by violating roe v. wade. jason rapert -- >> i've heard it pronounced rapert. >> it was changed from ist. >> stephanie: he wants to defund it. including little rock schools on sexually transmitted diseases. arkansas ranks in the top ten for the number of cases of

syphilis gonorrhea and chlamydia. why educate kids on stds when you're on top right? >> chlamydia. >> way to go, arkansas on all of that chlamydia. >> chlamydia. >> driving out west toward california, this den of inequity, keep the pedal to the metal. no place to slow down and get a piece. >> stephanie: get a souvenir for me, wouldn't you. arkansas enjoy how much you're going to spend on the court challenges and how much you'll spend on all of the unwanted kids. you're number five in unwanted pregnancies. most especially, enjoy the syphilis. as an addendum, your state ranked number four for incidents of domestic violence but look here, all four of your congressional representatives and one of your senators voted against the violence against women act. you get points for consistency

of stephanie. >> i would love that to be a replacement for that word. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: the button is right next to the -- [ bleep ] >> yeah, you know, it is one of those things. the governor of course, has said flat out the abortion law is unconstitutional. and he -- he vetoed it. but in arkansas, they only do a simple majority -- need a simple majority to overcome a veto. >> simple majority is a great parody of words when it comes to the arkansas house. >> you know why? it is because of what syphilis does to the brain. >> stephanie: right. >> i'm not saying the arkansas legislature is filled with syphilitic members how far it is filled with syphilitic members. >> stephanie: all right. you do agree, a lot of people, they just -- they don't realize how insane some of the laws these states are passing

individually. i was on friday on cnn talking about georgia just passed a law that requires everyone to be -- to be armed. requires everyone to have a gun even if you don't want one. these are the small government people? the government's now going to force you to have a gun. >> which does seem -- the right to bear arms does also seem to indicate the right not to bear arms. >> stephanie: right. >> by the way there goes their obamacare defense. the idea that -- the government can't force you to buy a product. this is the first time the government has ever forced -- that's not -- that's a service actually. >> stephanie: what could possibly go wrong? how many studies do we need that the less gun crime -- states with the fewest guns, shockingly, have the least gun crimes. >> the hits keep on coming on guns because south dakota is -- i think it is almost ready to pass a teachers can carry loaded guns in the classroom. which i just was thinking about my crazed ex-vietnam vet

american history teacher who never blinked and smoked constantly. >> stephanie: we had a priest with a bad anger management problem and the one woman with the lazy eye. all of them, really, should have been armed. >> wow, i would like to see a shoot-out between them. >> stephanie: kids in the crossfire. >> a nun with a chanky eye. >> stephanie: she wasn't a nun. rudeness great stuff as usual. talk to you next week. [ applause ] >> stephanie: am i the only one who is terrified when you see the pictures of the gun shows? >> hal: i like them all grouped in one place. >> they're all just laying out on tables. not under glass or anything. wow. >> stephanie: i thought this was surprising. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] it would make wayne lapierrre do a doody in his pants. the share american households with guns has declined over the past four decades.

[ scooby-doo's "huh?" ] >> stephanie: i'm sorry wayne? [ scooby-doo's "huh?" ] a national survey shows some of the most surprising drops in the south and western mountain states, the gun ownership rate has fallen across a broad cross section of households since the early 1970s. it is the opposite of the stories you see, people are going crazy and buying -- >> hal: there are a lot of gun sales. >> stephanie: it is a concentrated bunch of nuts. >> hal: if you look statistically, it is the exact same number of hard line republicans still left in the country. it is almost exactly the number between 28 and 32% all the time with some mild variance. >> stephanie: the fox news. it was interesting. the household gun ownership rate has fallen from 50% to 43% in the '90s. 35% in the 2000s and 2012, share of american households with guns was 34%. and again, this is what they're saying. the findings contrast with the impression left by a flurry of news reports with people rushing

to buy guns and clearing shelves i suspect the increase in gun sales has been limited to current gun owners. wild crazy stockpiling. that's what this is. the decline which has been studied by researchers for years but is relatively unknown among the general public suggests even as the conversation on guns remains contentious a broad shift is underway in a growing number of american homes. it raises questions about the future politics of gun control. will efforts to regulate guns eventually meet with less resistance if they're increasingly concentrated in fewer hands or more resistant. >> it is an interesting take. i watch the same news stories. everybody's got a gun. yeah. offer different theories for these trends. this one interesting many americans nowed to gun -- introduced to gun. now that they're introducing it,

it is a less of a gateway for gun ownership. sorry. >> hal: i was just saying my gun-owning friends who are a lot of guys who works in stunts and films who used them for all kinds of different things, they're hoping their reaction after newtown was -- genuine respect for the victims and that kind of stuff. if you're going to buy a gun of a certain type, buy it now because they're not going to take it back from you. they'll limit sales in the future. buy it now. that was the general mentality. these guns are not going to be available in the market. so go buy them by the handful. and they did. they find out that the store that the aurora shooter -- somebody had walked an ar-15 out of there they have 100 guns not accounted for. >> stephanie: oi. there was an accompanying piece in "the new york times" yesterday. i thought it was interesting in terms of the future of gun politics. it says for some owning a gun isn't the same as liking it. it was interesting even the gun owners they interviewed sonya

wolfe said i never wanted a gun. now i own a smith & wesson revolver. why? when push comes to sho, i would rather have one but if i had my way, nobody would have a gun. the competitive sharpshooter agreed. i thought the second amendment was secondary to everyone feeling safe and secure in their lives. fewer guns would lead to fewer deaths. he's a gun enthusiast. another couple, first time gun owners, they were shocked by how easily they bought their guns. the husband said it freaked me out how easy it was. i think it is harder to buy an iphone than a gun. i'm a gun owner who believes there needs to be more regulation. >> it is an ever refining group of people. they overlap with the other groups that we consistently see this off the charts legal stuff from. there aren't any -- right now republicans who -- you know, the pro-choice who don't overlap with the gun lobby.

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world at the top of the hour. hal sparks in for jim ward who is off on a job. >> hal: i will be over here for those of you watching on current, i will be look at semi nude pictures of girls. >> stephanie: just like jim. and snacking on bagels. >> hal: i have the stinkiest food i could find. normally, he could clear the area with whatever mixture -- >> that's usually stephanie that does that. >> stephanie: i just brought salad today. >> i'm downwind from both of them. >> she brings in salmon and brussels sprouts. >> a day old. from last night. [farting sounds] >> if it was fresh it wouldn't be as much of a problem. >> stephanie: roughage. the president on the sequester. barack obama making progress on these issues won't be easy. there will be more contentious debate and disagreement between principles people who want what's best for this country. >> stephanie: then there are the republicans.

you notice these dinners someone was saying part of it is because we had to actually tell them to their face this is what i put on the table which you're not aware of because you have to check my web site. you don't even know -- >> they were arguing with reporters about it. i would like to see something like that. if the president said that, i would like to see it. he said it on his address at the last presser he had in the letter he sent to the republicans in congress. >> yep. >> stephanie: how do you negotiate with people who don't even avail themselves of current information about what you're offering. >> hal: the only reason they want to meet with him and have him call them is because they need something to legitimize them after the last election because quite frankly, the republicans are on the outs as far as the productivity in congress. they're no longer useful party and they need voters to see the president talking to republicans as if he needs to -- and it is for their own value. it is a media moment. >> stephanie: eric boehlert, as usual wrote a great piece about this.

mainstream media false equivalency about why isn't the president leading? okay. the president. >> i still believe compromise is possible. i know there are leaders on the other side of the aisle who share that belief. >> really? >> yeah, there are. two of them. they're in a corner afraid of being primaried. >> stephanie: exactly. the boner yesterday. >> i think it's a sign, a hopeful sign and i'm hopeful that something will come out of it. but if the president continues to insist on tax hikes, i don't think we're going to get very far. >> yeah, because a tax hike -- >> stephanie: that would be a nonstarter. >> closing a loophole where a multinational oil company not only doesn't have to pay taxes but gets a subsidy for work they're making billions of dollars of profit on and never doing the safety work paying for the stuff that they're getting the tax break for in the first place, that's our tax hike. according to john boehner. >> stephanie: and senator jeff

sessions the senator from -- >> keebler. >> stephanie: right. from the little tree in alabama. >> president obama speaks of his deep concern for struggling americans. yet his plans are focused on growing government, not the economy. >> stephanie: you know -- >> that is a lie. >> stephanie: i was reading this story. just kills me, hal over the weekend about these amazing job numbers we just had in february. unemployment down to 7.7%. the recovery, housing market is recovering. i'm like just in time for the sequestration to hit. i mean -- it is really -- >> nothing like green shoots to bring out a lawnmower. >> stephanie: scott in iowa, you're on with hal and company. >> caller: good morning, everybody. hey, you know, it was on the news two or three weeks ago that the scooter store got busted for ripping off medicare for $108

million. >> hal: right. >> caller: boehner sitting there saying we've got to cut spending. why don't we investigator the companies, clients contractors that are ripping off the government first before we want to cut spending and just see how much money that could actually save us without raising taxes or doing anything. investigate these companies! >> hal: you're on to something because that's exactly what the $716 billion was based on was going after waste and fraud and eliminating all of the overpayments and that kind of stuff. >> stephanie: yes. >> hal: plus if you'll notice, like the south is full of those ads. they are run everywhere. like i go to kentucky to visit family and those ads, there would be no television, live in kentucky were it not for -- >> hoveround ads. >> get your free scooter. so you can ride it to washington like an army of elderly --

>> stephanie: well-regulated militia. mary jo in maryland, you're on real quick. >> caller: how is everyone doing? >> stephanie: good. 30 seconds. >> caller: they're not taking my money away. they're not taking medicare, medicaid, social security. we're all social security. i have a daughter who is 24, cerebral palsy. she can't work. i'm a caregiver. they won't mess up my household. we're going to march. >> stephanie: or you're going to scooter. >> caller: maybe it is time to riot. i don't know. we've done everything logical. and logic is not working. >> stephanie: time to get the scooters. >> hal: i think we have to address that some, too. >> a million scooter roll. >> stephanie: there we go. eric boehlert in right-wing world next on "the stephanie miller show."

[ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> stephanie: hello current tv. hour number two. eric boehlert coming up to cohost right-wing world. jacki schechner, the third member of our truffle hot brie, mel its is a fitzgerald -- melissa fitzgerald will be there in about half an hour. >> sounds good. >> stephanie: the three of us went spinning yesterday to spinning class then to brunch. you guys were in the bathroom and you left me alone entirely too long. you know what i did? >> you assaulted a celebrity. >> who? >> stephanie: i was waiting for them and laura dern came in.

i blurted out oh, my god i love you. she looked a little frightened. >> i would be, too. >> you probably made some really old movie reference. i loved you in blue velvet. >> stephanie: i tend to blurt things. >> you were great as super girl. totally -- >> that's the fun thing about hollywood -- about l.a. you run into these people in random places. >> stephanie: and you're not prepared. >> you're often not supposed to assault them. >> stephanie: calm down. it is jacki schechner in the current news center. >> a gunman dressed in an afghan police uniform opened fire at a training facility in afghanistan today killing at least two americans and three afghans. american troops were visiting the police facility as part of the on-going effort to get the afghans ready to take over their own security. president hamid karzai had ordered all u.s. special forces out of there by yesterday in the wake of accusations that afghans working for those u.s. troops

had tortured and murdered innocent civilians. general joseph, the top u.s. commander in afghanistan said he has spoken with president karzai about the issue and the u.s. is working on a plan to transfer vardok security over to u.s. forces. the general is rejecting president karzai's claim that somehow the u.s. is in collaboration with the taliban to prove that violence will escalate once u.s. forces leave. president karzai made those inflammatory remarks during a nationally-televised speech on sunday. operation key resolve is now underway on korean peninsula. every year the u.s. and south koreans together conduct military drills. this year's comes at the same time the u.n. has unanimously approved new sanctions against north korea. this is its punishment for its latest nuclear test. in response, north korea has upped its threatening rhetoric saying it is now dismissing the cease-fire that ended the korean

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♪ sexy liberals are having a good time ♪ ♪ stephanie miller comedy tour is making its way to the midwest ♪ ♪ chicago here they come ♪ ♪ woo-hoo ♪ ♪ april 13th in chicago ♪ >> stephanie: thank you, audra. audra and kate coming down from minneapolis. speaking of sexy liberals, first time i saw him on it, what did i say? eric boehlert from media matters for america doing the lord's work as usual. >> announcer: eric boehlert. ♪ hurts so good ♪ ♪ hurts so good ♪ >> stephanie: let's dye into the right-wing world. >> i don't know what that means. >> stephanie: eric boehlert from media matters. good morning your hotness and your smartness. >> good morning. >> don't do that. >> hey eric. >> stephanie: just your tweets, where do we start? weird week. hannity praising ryan's rising

g.o.p. star. rand paul end aid to israel. >> that was from either 2011 or 2012. look, the rand paul thing was very interesting. there was lots of great stuff about it. a lot of odd stuff about it. i think it was probably -- you know, if you lived on the twitter universe, it was slightly blown out of proportion in terms of what is it going to mean in the long run. that's what a filibuster should look like. not this nonsense they tried with hagel and a lot of the other obstructionist tactics for the republican views. there was lots of interesting mixed alliances. we just don't see anymore. usually so cut and dry. everyone forms a line behind certain people. but to see hannity touting rand paul as a rising star, fresh face i think -- he might want to look at some of his libertarian policies. particularly the middle east stuff. >> stephanie: has caused yet another [ bleep ] fight in the

republican party. that's all that matters. from the department of awesome timing, column on jobs. hashtag priceless hashtag i heart peggy. [ laughter ] >> it was literally like 30 minutes after the jobs numbers came out friday morning. they always post pentagongyien into an's col -- peggien into an's column. i also tweeted david brooks had that colossal blunder with not knowing that obama had a plan for deficit reduction. do these people only exist for comic relief? because there's no intellectual behind it. they're not changing the dialogue of the debate or anything. here's peggy noonan hitting obama on a jobs crisis. to minutes after 236 jobs are

created. >> stephanie: i love this tweet. if under romney the dow hit 14,000 and jobs jumped 236,000 fox would launch a campaign to add mitt's face to mt. rushmore. >> friday was a quiet day on fox and friends. they have to deal with the great jobs report. gas prices aren't up. they can't talk about that. the dow, you would not know the dow existed if you touched fox news. it has more than doubled. in obama's first term. all of this stuff. could you imagine if mitt sort of waltzed in? the dow hits record high every day and we got the jobs report. literally, they would be crowing that mitt had saved us from despair. but it happens under obama and it basically doesn't exist. >> stephanie: i love this tweet. how is that rebranding going? they prefer hillary clinton over marco rubio. >> let's face it.

the reason rubio has been giving the star treatment within the republican party and even the press, i think, is this idea he might be able to turn around the fiasco in terms of latino voters. hillary clinton who doesn't even -- doesn't even campaign. hasn't even been in politics for five years polls like 65 to 25. it wasn't even close. put the word in a poll and they're going to trounce it. >> hal: in his defense though, by the way hillary though she has not been campaigning has not given an awkward speech where she reached for a water bottle like it belonged to someone else and she was shoplifting it. she doesn't have that going against her. >> stephanie: we were just talking about the gun issue in georgia. i was just on cnn talking about this friday. your tweet you just write dear god, new georgia bill expands gun rights to "those deemed to

have mental health problems." >> i put it in all caps. are you kidding me? it is not a law yet but it passed easily thanks to republicans, expanding more people with diagnosed mental problems, should be able to own guns in the state of georgia and it is just -- it is beyond comprehension. one other quick plug, mother jones has this great article i saw this morning similar bill expanding gun rights in utah. utah has a gun suicide epidemic. go take a look at it. statistics are amazing. they want more people to have guns in their hands. >> stephanie: absolutely. we've been talking about it. by the way, i was telling hal about your piece how the liberal media keep blaming obama for republican behavior. it continues to be infuriating on the sequester. you say the problem with so much of the beltway media's on-going commentary regarding the sequestration showdown, two republicans and president obama

is it reflecting the central failing and it blames the president for the g.o.p.'s ingrained signature on stinnancy. it is unbelievable, isn't it. >> it is. i did a couple of things last week. the update -- my main point was they keep blaming obama for not getting -- for not avoiding sequestration when it was obvious the republican strategy was not to come to a deal. they were quite plain about it. then at the end of the week, i updated it because we saw the reports that republicans didn't even know what obama was offering with his deficit reduction plan. that came out of the dinner that he had with some senators and a couple of other reports. >> stephanie: he told them to their face at dinner. >> hal: their negotiating point most of the time is sticking their fingers in their ears and going -- >> stephanie: the republican position is that this negotiation is of vital importance to the future of the country, so important they may

be willing to shut down the government, let the full faith and credit of the united states be destroyed. they also can't be bothered to understand what it is the other side wants. remember beltway pundits agree the partisan impasse that led to the sequestration was obama's fault. >> yeah. i think some of that was paul waldman wrote in american prospect. it is obama's fault even though republicans don't even know what he's offering. i mean come on. the press has to make a break. and -- >> stephanie: when they keep saying why won't the president read? read the web site! let's dive into the right-wing world. this is someone new. nicole who? >> when you see the unemployment rate dropping, you have to take it with a grain of salt. does it mean so many more americans got jobs that they wanted or does it mean that the labor participation rate, the rate at which people actually are in the work force are the

people who just said you know what? i'm not looking for a job anymore. >> hal: yeah, they actually factor that into the number. that's part of how they gather that statistic. >> she's not much of a business reporter, is she? >> not so much. >> media matters clipped the video from fox and friends i think friday morning. basically, warning the readers to take these unemployment numbers with a grain of salt. basically, telling them don't get too depressed you know. hopefully more people won't have jobs this year. they have to put everything through their filter. which is -- which is basically rooting for a better economy. >> stephanie: this is the piece we were talking about. paul ryan on with chris wallace. >> are you saying that as part of your budget you would repeal, you assume the repeal of obamacare? >> yes. >> well, that's not gonna

happen. >> well, we believe it should. that's the point. it was a big issue in the campaign between romney/ryan versus obama/biden. they think they won. that's one of the reasons they won. a lot of independent studies that say if you put this into effect, the net effect will be that seniors will end up having to pay more of the share of their healthcare costs. >> wow. >> stephanie: wow. that was on fox news, eric. holy cow! >> every now and then chris wallace decides you know, to get off the talking points. >> stephanie: in fact, mitt romney just said the president won because of obamacare. right? >> think about it. his budget proposal is based -- it is built around the idea that obamacare is going to be -- >> because it should. >> that's the key. because it should be. this fantasy should come true. therefore, let's build a federal budget. >> hal: i personally think an asteroid with a core made of

diamonds and gold should land softly somewhere in upstate new york so we can use it to pay off everything that we -- debt and whatever. but it is not going to. you can't budget for that. that's ridiculous. >> stephanie: eric boehlert remains in the sidecar. we continue more right-wing world after the break. >> this is the dirtiest show i've ever been on in all of my life. >> announcer: it's "the stephanie miller show."

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22 minutes after the hour. hal sparks in for jim ward. eric boehlert in the sidecar from media matters for america to continue right-wing world. how did i know hugo chavez dying was not going to prevent rush limbaugh from comparing the president to him yet again. >> fidel taught him p.r. stuff and how to make it look like you're doing everything for the people when, behind the scenes, you're doing it all for yourself. this is our future. in fact, are we not watching the people of this country become poorer? under the guise of everything being fair? are we not watching the people of this country become poorer under the guise of equality? are we not watching people become poorer under the guise of making sure all of the unfairness and bigotry in the past is being fixed? >> stephanie: hmm. wow. okay. >> obama doesn't care about poor people? >> stephanie: always been his main concern.

>> it always has. >> talking about inequities and poor people. i saw people on rush limbaugh, everything was based on corporate profits where the dow is. everything was based on -- >> stephanie: but that's not important. >> labor union leader. hey, i'm all for talking about inequity in the poor. from rush limbaugh -- >> hal: he's talking about people like him becoming poorer because you can't be as racist and sexist on the radio as you used to be and keep all of your advertisers. that's what's means. >> stephanie: ben shapiro from breitbart. >> country supported mussolini early on. left wing press supported hitler the left wing begins to start back away from left wing dictators. >> of course hitler was a left winger. he redistributed wealth. he shut down businesses. this argument that hitler was a right-winger is absurd. it is absolutely ridiculous and it is historically ignorant.

it is a slander put forward by the left in order to try to shut down all debate on the fact that socialism and the rise of the left in countries in a major way usually leads to dictatorial natures far more often than, for example, a limited government. >> stephanie: wow. how do you unpack that little -- >> how do you argue with that lodgic? >> stephanie: hitler well-known liberal. >> of course you know, hitler was a liberal right? he was a person of the -- a leader of the people, redistributing wealth and all of that stuff. you know, ben shapiro and the folks at breitbart don't even understand 20th century history. they also don't understand satire by the way because over the weekend they posted his news, paul krugman had filed for bankruptcy when it was in fact a satire piece that was making the rounds online. they don't know anything about history. and they don't know anything about satire. but they do provide comic relief for a lot of us.

>> stephanie: all right. sean hannity yet again with the nazis. >> i say we're going to look back on this period of history as through the prism of history and say this was the rise of the radical islamists. to me, there is an eerie similar feeling to the 1930s. that they want a worldwide -- first battle will be against israel. then it will be against the west. >> stephanie: yep. >> i don't quite follow the connection. >> very glenn beck of him. >> wow. >> rude goldberg of him. >> stephanie: okay. peter johnson whose name is peter johnson. >> they've become kind of the pets of the environmental industry including al gore to say oh look what's happening to the polar bears. they've been protected to a great, great degree and that they will continue to thrive.

there are some in the government who say the opposite. by 2050, they'll be greatly greatly dissipated so it is global warming -- so is global warming real or not real? i've heard people say it is not really real. it is science moving forward. it indicates that they're wrong about it. >> hmm. >> stephanie: it is just an entirely fact and science-free zone over there, isn't it? that's the problem. too many polar bears. >> there is this book out now saying there are a ton of polar bears overrunning the towns up by the north pole and gee but that's an argument about whether it is protected species. there's no argument about -- just pick up the "wall street journal" over the weekend, had a story, hottest decade in i believe in the history of recorded times. these people are still sort of clinging on to some people say you know, global warming doesn't exist. you know. >> stephanie: eric, before you

go, i have to ask you did you see fox and friends founding father friday. they're reduced to interviewing fictional characters now from history. >> speaking of glenn beck, very glenn becky. they had a thomas jefferson impersonator but like it was -- not only was the whole thing goofy, but just as like entertainment like no one really knows what thomas jefferson sounded like it. could have been some guy off the street in period garb. whole thing was great. >> stephanie: steve ducey noted sketch artist, introduced him as the third president of the united states on a budget cutter. jefferson agreed he was. i believe that the government needs to be simple and frugal. we're not only being irresponsible but stealing from posterity. the segment was reminiscent of the show's interview with santa claus in december when gretchen carlson spoke to him to make the case on the war on christmas. there really is no difference between "saturday night live" and fox and friends. >> glenn beck must be fuming.

they're stealing his shtick. they boot him off the air and now they're stealing his shtick. >> stephanie: unbelievable. eric boehlert, great stuff. we'll see you next week. [ applause ] eric boehlert from media matters. that's it. historical characters. >> right. >> played by impersonators. >> stephanie: were there auditions? maybe jim is auditioning for the next founding fathers. >> he's auditioning to be hoover. >> hal: to glenn beck's credit over the fox and friends crowd if he interviewed thomas jefferson, he would have used quotes from him out of context but he would have pretended he would have the guy quote back jefferson stuff. whereas they just made it up. >> stephanie: 29 minutes. fox news making stuff up? what are you saying? 29 minutes after the hour. hot brie in the city, activist melissa fitzgerald next on "the stephanie miller show."

are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. staying in tough with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them, right? vo: the war room tonight at 6 eastern

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you just moved about five minutes away from me. >> almost all of them. >> stephanie: you came in. here's your glasses honey you left them at my house. i get my show prep and it says hot brie. hot brie is on. >> i got my hot brie recipe from travis. this is what's -- >> stephanie: because you did an amazing film documentary on uganda called after kony which we've talked about. we have another guest coming on to talk about killing gays in uganda, all of your favorite subjects. she calls and says would you like to go to a dinner party about genocide? yes. >> a dinner party to celebrate genocide? >> not celebrate. i was invited because i've done some work against genocide. >> stephanie: she's a do-gooder. that's jim's job is to turn it into the melissa fitzgerald is pro genocide. [ buzzer ] >> no!

>> how to make it quicker. >> stephanie: all right hot brie. here's how -- we shared his mom's recipe. it looks really good. >> i haven't done it yet. >> stephanie: melissa fitzgerald makes it. that's why she has her name, hot brie. >> it will only get better now that i have this recipe. >> stephanie: take four or five sheets of filo dough and brush them with butter and layer them. pour the jam on top. wrap the dough over the top -- >> pomegranate preserves right? >> it will be this time. thanks to travis' mom. >> mama bone. >> stephanie: wrap the dough up over the jam. bake at 350 until bubbly inside or the filo is golden. we use fig or pomegranate jam. >> apricot is good, too. >> i did apricot the first time

i did it. >> any time you're using butter as a sealant you're in a good situation. that's what you're sealing things with. >> stephanie: jim ward said that would be a good stripper name, hot brie. let me go on record as saying melissa fitzgerald has not now or never been a stripper. because she's probably going to run for congress at some point and then this is what's going to torpedo her. isn't she hot brie from the sexy miller show? >> hal: didn't she once -- especially with the right wing constantly going to satire pieces of news and believing them to be real like reading onion articles and going busted! you're like no. >> stephanie: i've run into people who think i'm a dancer at the itchy kitty. >> the itchy kitty is in ca noga park. >> stephanie: research people. [ cuckoo clock chimes ] >> stephanie: because we were saying -- >> hal: next up, crystal. >> stephanie: we've spent

about 75 and a half hours together in the last four days. we've talked about all of this. ashley judd it looks like is going to run. i'm excited. poke the turtle. source close to actress ashley judd told a reporter she's serious about challenge mitch mcconnell. at least in ashley's mind, it's happening. she's devoted herself to many of causes. she's stepped away from the hollywood spotlight. they've already started this whole campaign against her. >> attacking her for roles she's played for nudity on film and she's done so many great things and done great work. let's talk about thework she's done and the things that are actually important to the job she's possibly going to want to get rather than things that have nothing to do with that. >> stephanie: let's set the record straight on hot brie. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] our very own future congressional candidate melissa fitzgerald has never been naked. she's never been naked ever.

okay. [ laughter ] >> i don't think there are any nude scenes. >> no. >> stephanie: you were saying when -- what did they do? they ran an ad or something. >> they took a picture of me in a movie premiere and i wasn't even running. they said the thought of her running is titillating. i thought really? i've done so many things and have worked on behalf of a lot of people and that's the thing? >> hal: wait until i run. yeah. my bumper stickers are going to say hal sparks, safe search off. that's my whole campaign. let's do this, righties! there are pictures of me wearing nothing but a badminton shell cock. >> then you have to run. >> stephanie: just for that. >> they'll leave you alone after that. i got nothing.

i got nothing. >> stephanie: that's what they're doing. they're scared. his approval ratings are -- >> terrible. terrible for the state. he's on a practical level he's bad for kentucky. regardless of whatever control or how he's been able to manipulate and be anti-obama and running things -- the reality is kentucky's in trouble. it is largely in trouble because of rand and mcconnell's ideas and stuff at the expense of the state. >> they don't bring anything back to the state of kentucky. >> they slow down everything that might move kentucky forward insofar as manufacturing i.t. everybody who learns a computer trade in kentucky, splits. they leave. they go someplace elsewhere the business really is. >> what? >> stephanie: use kentucky and brain drain. [ ♪ circus ♪ ] >> stephanie: hal's gone. pretty much the i.q. -- >> me, johnny depp, we all left.

>> if ashley judd wins, you can go back. >> occasionally. >> stephanie: hot brie. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] so you're going -- which i'm getting a little panicky already since we spend as we reviewed every waking moment together pretty much. you're leaving -- you're going to d.c. because -- >> i'm doing a bunch of things. i'm going to go to d.c. -- first, i'm going to philadelphia to do a presentation at my 9-year-old nephew's class on africa. most important thing. >> stephanie: can you please tell a couple of the nephew stories. all of her nephews are like -- they're like stand-up comedians all of them. >> yeah, well, one of them was trying to set me up with people. and we were in a hot tub in florida last year and there was a very young looking guy in the hot tub. what about him? i said oh, sweetie he's too young for me. he walks right over to him and he said how old are you? the guy said 18. and my nephew says he's 18. like that's a good thing. i said that's way too young for

me. he said how old are you? i said well, i'm -- and i'm 46 and he goes -- [ laughter ] >> stephanie: he did the comedic jaw drop. he had to manually -- >> snap it back in. >> oh, yeah, radio. then some people got in the hot tub. he said this is my aunt. she's not married and she's 46. >> oh, god! [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: children are precious, aren't they? [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] >> i believe they're the future. >> hal: i don't think so. i know for a fact children aren't the future because they don't stay children. so they're adults. >> stephanie: the story of a neighbor of mine said her 8-year-old, we were standing at a vet. he was staring at me and he goes why don't you have a husband? i said you know what? [ buzzer ] that's a whole discussion that you're not ready for. >> some day. >> stephanie: although they do come in handy, you were talking

about the one that is a sprks ido expert. >> he had a plan for one of your exes. >> he had a plan for one of my exes. i had just broken up with someone. i was crying a little. and i was in bed crying and he came in. he said what's wrong? i said i have a friend who's not my friend anymore. he thought about it. he said i'm going to go to california and i'm gonna bring six spiders and put one on his head, two on his tummy two on his legs and one in his shoe. and then he goes what do you think he'll do? i said well, i think he will be scared. he says i think he'll be dead. >> stephanie: that's spectacular. >> do not mess with my aunt! >> stephanie: i love an 8-year-old with a vengeful streak. i could use one of those about now. >> hal: when you're reliant on people around you to feed you your limitation of the moral choices are very narrow.

look, i will kill somebody if they mess with someone who's responsible for the people who give me food. seriously, i will f somebody up. >> stephanie: put a spider on their head. >> and one arachna in his shoe. >> stephanie: he's an expert. so you're going to the hill. you're going to film the final episode. >> yes. we're going to go to d.c. this week after my nephew's school. after the big presentation. >> different nephew but close. we're going to go to d.c. and richard schiff who is a wonderful actor who is doing a play. west wing. he's doing a play in d.c. >> stephanie: can i name drop in the middle of this. guess what i met at melissa fitzgerald's housewarming party. allison janney. >> she's the greatest.

>> she can do anything. she's in every movie. >> nonstop. we're going to see -- >> stephanie: in juno. >> in nurse betty. >> she's unrecognizable in a lot of things. >> stephanie: she's impossibly tall and thin and glamorous. >> nice. kind good, great friend. >> stephanie: she brought a giant jug of vodka to your house. she said i'll be back. >> good friend. >> stephanie: go ahead. >> i need that. >> hal: for the next spider-man you break up. you broke up with spido man. >> stephanie: special screening of chasing the hill. >> we're filming the final episode and also doing a special screening as part of the environmental film festival on saturday night in d.c. and you can get tickets through -- i think through the environmental film festival. >> stephanie: right. >> the reason we're doing this through the environmental film festival is because my character

plays a green tech millionaire who's running for congress. >> stephanie: i see that here. an ambitious green energy millionaire. >> that was my idea to make her that because we were deciding on what her career would be. i said wouldn't it be good to have first of all a woman who's made her own money and done her own thing and someone who's done it in new technologies because people do make money. it is good role modeling. >> stephanie: chasing the hill is fabulous because it mixes real politicians ed rendell your good friend, terry mcauliffe lawrence o'donnell our mutual crush. >> i could barely act when he was in the scene with me. >> stephanie: he makes me giggly. >> really? >> yes really! [ laughter ] >> we love him! >> stephanie: she can tell you about the amazing amount of -- let's just say man experiences i had this weekend. >> a lot. >> stephanie: i don't know what's happening. >> every man loves her. >> did you get some man action? >> stephanie: yeah. 46 minutes -- we'll talk about that. that's a tease. 46 minutes after the hour. >> that means he petted her dog.

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♪ woo-hoo ♪ ♪ woo-hoo ♪ >> stephanie: uh-huh. get the party up in here. we've got the hot brie. we've got the sexy liberal hal sparks. we've got the par at-tay. you moved two minutes away from me. 1-800-steph-12. >> very exciting. [ applause ] >> stephanie: here's why god made her pretty. so we exchanged keys so we can check on each other's houses and dogs. >> even though i don't have a dog. >> stephanie: whatever. >> on a euphemism. >> stephanie: literally the first time i picked her up to go somewhere, she left her keys inside. if i had not had my key we couldn't have gotten her back into her apartment. >> did stripper pole make the move? >> it diddity but my place -- it did. but my place is carpeted. it is still there. i'm waiting to give it to somebody who has a hardwood floor. >> stephanie: it comes with

knee pads, hal. >> for real. >> hal: your stripper pole? >> stephanie: it is her stripper pole. >> because you know, i needed them. my knees would get bruised up when i would do stuff. >> stephanie: if jim ward is listening on the way to his voice job right now -- hot brie and knee pads. jim ward just drove off the 405. >> they sell tell they class that i take because everybody needs them. >> stephanie: right. all right. so let's talk about our weekend for a second. what did we get to do friday night? >> which one was friday. oh right! that was so exciting. [ screaming ] we did so many things. couldn't remember which night. >> stephanie: we got to hang out with steven stills in his studio. he played some of his new music. we were like oh, my god! irma gird. >> it was incredible. >> best seat ef fear crosby stills concert.

>> stephanie: his wife is amazing. good time was had by all. >> i can't imagine what it would be like to be that gifted. >> stephanie: me, too. i do this for a living. [farting sounds] >> there's no gift involved there. >> stephanie: no gift really. anyway and here's the kind of political geeks we are. i learned something new about you this weekend having spent about 75 hours in a car with you going somewhere. you have a pocket mirror. >> oh, i do. >> stephanie: this is the kind of political geek she is. >> everybody in america. >> my favorite one. >> i am pissed. that's my favorite. >> stephanie: i was trying to find gum in her car. you have a pocket renegen. >> you can order them online. i have many but i like this one because you can work it into a conversation and throw people

off on the phone. all of a sudden, you go -- >> i am pissed. >> stephanie: i'm going to find gum and i'm like what the hell is that? i'm sorry hal. >> hal: first of all, that's not what i would have in my pocket. >> stephanie: huh? >> i want one of my own. can you make your own? can you fill in your own voice things? >> you want a pocket hal sparks. >> that's a great idea. >> dinosaur noise and a couple of other things. >> the company should do it. >> hal: i'm going to get on that. now, granted the pocket hal sparks would actually make kind of warm and supportive phrases and then vibrate. [ laughter ] because i'm in your pocket. >> stephanie: it is only for political geeks. we went to a barbecue. here's the kind of geeks we are. want to go home and watch "meet the press"? yeah. so we left early. >> "meet the press" is on at 8:00 in the morning here.

>> i dvr it. >> stephanie: this is another episode of america's funniest lesbian pranks because i swear to god i don't know how to use the dvr. it is only in my bedroom. so we went to my bedroom. >> you had to make an apology phone call. >> i did not make a pass at her. >> we had ice cream and watched "meet the press." >> stephanie: i can't believe she fell for that. i only know how to do it. >> you had a pillow fight in your bra and panties. >> stephanie: david gregory makes me so mad i want to take my bra o -- off. >> all of the david gregory pillow fights that happen every weekend. >> we were loving his wife. she told him at the roundtable to shut up. >> stephanie: he should listen to her more often. it was one of the best conversations i've seen on the show in awhile. sheryl sandberg. my wife told me to listen more. good idea!

stop being such a right wing tool! >> that's not true. he listens to insert talking points awkwardly into a conversation. it is hard-hitting question. >> stephanie: you don't even have to listen to him. just look at the chyron. [ screaming ] >> david gregory formula which is hard-hitting question, softball follow-up and republican talking point. in that order. and a loop. >> in an endless loop. >> i do feel like that's a little bit -- it was the "meet the press" format. the last one. it was the initial question then the follow-up and then moving on. >> yeah. >> that's why i like my chris matthews too because he does not move on. dog with a bone. >> i like that. >> stephanie: mickey in south dakota real quick. you're on with melissa and hal. hi mickey. >> howdy mooks. howdy, mama. >> stephanie: hello. >> caller: you're all so good-looking that i would like to see any of you strip.

>> stephanie: chris hit the music. let's do this. okay. >> caller: i heard the rude pundit -- >> better than stripper music. >> i was going to take my pants off and then you played that music. i can't do that. >> caller: anyway, what i'm calling about is i heard the rude pundit speaking about the south dakota law about guns. anyway, our state now has signed in that teachers and school employees are to carry guns on to school grounds and also -- >> stephanie: what could go wrong? >> south dakota is the state where dick cheney got to shoot his friend in a face and not get in trouble. >> stephanie: not have to talk to police until the next day as you do when you shoot your friend in the face. more hal sparks, more hot brie. we continue on "the stephanie miller show."

[ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> stephanie: hello. hour number three. oh, my god explosion hotness. wonder woman lynda carter coming up. it is third member of our truffle, there she is. melissa fitzgerald. >> hi, jacki. >> good morning. you sound a little raspy. >> i think it was going out too much this weekend. i'm too old for this. and spinning. >> stephanie: i won the east side, west side. it was like. >> it pack -- i won the war and i got melissa on to the east side. we had a little brunch yesterday. didn't we? >> yeah, we've come to some negotiated -- there's some middle ground there.

>> stephanie: i know. brentwood. we found safe meeting ground in the middle. >> oat bran pancakes. >> stephanie: we felt bad like we were cheating on you when we got our gels done. jacki will be jealous. >> whatever. i just have to make a new friend somewhere along the way. >> no! >> i'm fine. i'll find someone who wants to hang out with me. >> stephanie: we love you jacki schechner. in the current news center. >> it is not like i have a miserable schedule or spend my mornings alone. >> stephanie: i'm spooning you. here she is, jacki schechner. >> good morning, everybody. representative ed marquee is starting to rack up the endorsements in his bid to win john kerry's former seat in the senate. democracy for america the howard dean founded political action committee is putting its support behind marquee today. move on.org registered backing for markey last week. the congressman is going up against fellow representative stephen lynch and the democratic primary on april 30th. a special election for kerry's

former seat is june 25th. dfa has more than 33,000 members in massachusetts. it is calling markey a tried and true progressive with a long record of standing up to conservative democrats. a u.s. poll shows that primary voters are in favor of markey at this point too. at the moment, he leads 50-21. meanwhile, former massachusetts senator scott brown said he's going to make a nonpolitical announcement today. he put the teaser out on twitter this morning. newark mayor cory booker who has more than 1.3 million followers on twitter has a note for the federal government when it comes to social media. loosen up. booker told an audience south by southwest in austin over the weekend that the problem with the government's use of social media is it ignores the social aspect. that it uses things like twitter as a p.a. system to make announcements when it should be using it to have a conversation. we're back with more show after the break. wonder woman coming up.

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welcome to canada where we don't care who you marry as long as you both watch hockey. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] all right. here's a part of the show where when melissa is on, we talk about genocide. >> that's what we do. >> stephanie: only show in america you can go from stripper pole to genocide like that. that's why i love it. stephanie miller show, bitches. this is something you care about. you've done a great film called after kony about uganda and what's happened there. >> in the north, yeah. it is interesting because as many places are it is an interesting country. northern uganda has suffered under brutal rebel war for so many years. i went there and did a theatre program because i firmly believe that theatre can really move social issues and also be tremendously healing thing. we worked with former abducted child soldiers there and then somebody who is going to be on asked me to participate in a reading of a play that is about

something different but it is in uganda about the legislation that they call it -- >> the kill the gays bill. >> stephanie: if we had that here in l.a., your apartment wouldn't be unpacked yet because i wouldn't be here to help you. >> i was incapable of doing it myself. >> stephanie: i mentioned this before. you have to get her film, my favorite part of it is when people in uganda, they're talking, all of the people who came over. they're like none of you are married. what is wrong with you. >> oh. >> stephanie: we're like -- we've got trouble here but you guys are losers, really? >> you're all alike in this way. >> stephanie: okay. good morning sara to talk about the play you were just talking about. randy rhodes producer gave us a heads up about this important play. it is a ugandan man killed

because he's gay right? >> caller: sean pierce hooked me up with you guys. we've been friends since 1989. i'll let you guys do the math. >> stephanie: oh, wow! >> caller: yeah, this is a really extraordinary play because it is the very first thing ugandan history to have a gay character. and, as a result of being in this play, everyone who is involved with the play began to see their lives change in really drastic ways. the man who produced it was deported. one of the gentlemen in the play got deported. the main actor a guy named -- prince -- a fabulous name. >> stephanie: easy for you to say, gesundheit. >> he's coming over to the united states to explain what has changed in his life since he played the role of samson. one of the thing that's changed is they put him in a tabloid

accusing him of murdering prostitutes in china and silling their organs and their proof he did this is he was sick enough to play a gay man. >> stephanie: certainly that's an easy connection to make there. what? >> they didn't even blink. it was in four consecutive tabloids that he did this because he was sick enough to play a homosexual. he's an organ stealer. >> stephanie: wow. listen i've done that a couple of times at the organ bank when i was drunk. >> for the record, i played a gay man in television. i guess i've been -- i've played around with some female parts in my life. so -- >> for the record, anybody that knows this show knows it's not long to connect the dots between youtube. >> stephanie: it will be running for four days. march 21-23. following the show on saturday, march 23rd, actress melissa fitzgerald will be in

attendance. >> i will read one of the parts too. i'm going to play a preacher. >> place the evangelist that helps corrupt the ugandans. >> stephanie: that's right out of book of mormons. >> hal: are you saying that americans, religious and civic leaders actually played a hand in furthering this bill? >> stephanie: sara, that's an interesting point hal brings up. i don't know if people in america largely know that. the religious rite here has supported this. >> caller: yeah, they have. as a matter of fact, they were a primary instigator. if you take a look, all you have to do is look up scott lively. scott lively is one of the major instigators of the anti-homosexuality feeling that is going on in uganda right now and the people at smug which stands for sexual minorities uganda, their leader, frank, has actually been in contact with me several times.

they're suing scott lively. and they thanked us for bringing the play over here to help educate people on how americans really are going over and really are fanning the flames of hatred as it were. >> stephanie: when you look at all of the issues coming before the supreme court and meanwhile like you say they're actually giving aid and comfort to this idea in uganda. this is not what we want to be exporting. >> no. >> not at all. >> i'm also really offended by the fact that one of the reasons i want people to see this play is because we need to remind americans that good stewardship of our government means constantly telling our own government we won't settle for anything less than complete human rights for our gay citizens. >> stephanie: yeah. and that's when you look at the

depth of that kind of homophobia. they're just not talking about gay people not having equal rights. it is okay if we kill them. >> yes. >> stephanie: it is hard for us to believe this exists in uganda but it does. >> stephanie: the execution part has been in and out of the legislation. >> that potentially might not end up in there. >> sometimes it being pulled out was because of pressure in the united states on the very senators that were supporting it being in there in the beginning and they kind -- they basically got caught. scott lively is the guy who claims that obama's secretly gay and is in a relationship with reggie love. >> stephanie: yes. >> hal: and along with i think a poster at world net daily said obama used to go to the bath house scene in chicago all the time. he was notably there on wednesdays. this didn't come out during the campaign. there was not a single picture of this ever happening but it happened -- he was apparently into older white guys which if you believe that, you would

think you would have an easier time dealing with congress. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: good night everybody. sarah -- so tell us again the river and the mountain running four days. march 21-24. >> it kicks off at spotlighters bat -- in baltimore. you have to see melissa in arlington on saturday 23rd. she's going to be amazing. the fact she's agreed to help us is amazing. >> stephanie: i know. i've spent almost 75 and a half hours with her over the last four days. i'm still excited to see her every day. so i can only imagine if you've not seen her what that would be like. >> i really want to meet her once. >> well, i'm excited to do it and i'm honored you asked me because it is such an important topic. i do have a particular kinship to people who are using theatre in a positive way because i do think a good story artfully told can move mountains. >> stephanie: in fact, sara,

in melissa's documentary after kony, there is a touching moment where one of them says to melissa, are you going to forget about us. melissa tears up and says no i'm not going to. knowing her, i know is true. she's going to be there supporting you. we wish you all of the best. >> thank you. yeah. you know what? we're going to put a big picture of melissa on riverand riverandthemountain.com. >> stephanie: we put pictures of hot brie on everything. >> she took this one on a wing and a prayer. i'm going to come do this. i could not be more thankful because it is a really big deal. >> stephanie: is there a link up? >> on your facebook page. >> stephanie: stephanie miller facebook. thanks sarah for what you're doing. >> see you soon, sarah. >> stephanie: you're just a do-gooder. you're smokin' hot. >> all you do is good.

>> stephanie: oh, my god. every cause that comes up in conversation. i did a thing for that. all right. 17 minutes after the hour. much more to come. lynda carter, wonder woman. as we continue on "the stephanie miller show." >> announcer: don't you wish your girlfriend was a freak like her? it's "the stephanie miller show."

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>> stephanie: it is "the stephanie miller show." we're having a little geek out. hal sparks and melissa fitzgerald geeking out. lynda carter is coming up at the bottom of the hour. >> irma gird. >> in her satin tights fighting for your rights. that's awesome. the bass line of that song, of the wonder woman theme song is the devil's music in devil went down to georgia. >> you're right. >> it is the same song. just has a different evil fiddle over top of it. secondly -- >> stephanie: soul. >> hal: i can't listen to this. i went into the charlie daniels store in nashville. >> why? >> it was like -- becausely go anywhere because it's funny and come away with a joke. >> stephanie: just to say that. >> there is a shelf in the back with black salt -- >> here's the devil's music coming up. >> hal: wait.

>> stephanie: hang on. >> here it comes. ♪ ♪ wonder woman ♪ >> stephanie: okay. >> not fooling anyone, charlie daniels. you're a lynda carter fan, too. the only ingarbiating thing about you. >> stephanie: you told melissa you have a friend who named her dog -- >> barbara walters. barbara walters used to get out every morning and run down the street and my friend who lived with us for awhile would have to chase after barbara walters yelling barbara walters no! barbara walters is a bad girl. sit, barbara walters sit. so my neighbors thought my girlfriend and i were having some freaky sex three-way with barbara walters. >> stephanie: barbara walters is a bad girl. >> she likes a spanking. >> really? i'm going to have to get the book. >> stephanie: i got chickenpox

from lank langella -- from frank langella. itchy, itchy itchy. >> i got stephanie miller a job as a cocktail waitress. >> stephanie: we're thinking what we would name our next dogs. maybe jim lehrer, come here. >> that's a good one. >> hal: i would do -- just call it -- you don't want to rub his nose in it like that. that's not right. >> oh! [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] >> stephanie: kids. "l.a. times." it will be a long, dull summer without jon stewart unless you're watching stephanie miller on the current television network. i'm behind bill maher and stephen colbert. thank you "l.a. times." you can see hal and john and i live at the chicago theatre april 13th. we were talking about this weekend, you can fly now with hockey sticks and novelty bats. in addition to knives. >> i'm so happy about. >> stephanie: you were telling me a story about your friend. >> i heard you talking about that earlier my friend, his

last name is mafia. he used to drive around in his car with a hockey stick in the back. if someone cut him off, he would put it in his hand and be like having a bad day there chief? >> get out with a hockey stick and say let's do this. then they would have this game of street hockey. roller skates. >> stephanie: philly fan. throw a battery. it's on. >> he was from queens. >> i was living in toronto. i'll try to keep this short. at that point, they were immigrating big groups of tutsis and you had you its. >> speaking of genocide. >> they have been warring forever. >> they both went to work for rival cab companies. this was a big outbreak. a tutsi would see a hutu and they would notice what was hanging from their rear-view mirror. they would pull over and pull bats out of their trunks and seven other cabs would roll up. >> i remember that.

>> hal: this was amazing. the mayor of toronto and the governor of ontario and i believe the prime minister went on tv at the same time and they went all right! the next time this happens nobody else gets in from tutsi and you had you -- hutu tribe. it ended that day. it ended up being this bridge between them healing it. now that they're getting along in ontario. >> stephanie: they never seemed real to me. it was like from whoville. >> we drove around it a few times. they were taking us in a little van. we would have to change what route we were because there was a big bat fight going on. >> stephanie: chuck schumer talking about the ban of knives on planes. >> does anyone think this, a bottle of shampoo is more dangerous than this? a sharp and deadly knife? >> stephanie: he did a little show and tell. he brought out -- >> the knife he showed was an exacto knife and you can't bring those on.

>> stephanie: you can still bring your pocket ray nagin. >> ever have shampoo in your eyes? >> baby shampoo. >> hal: oh, foiled again! you're only allowed -- i will bring down this plane. >> i would leave the novelty bat at home. if you want the line to move, bring your pocket ray nagin. >> i am pissed. >> there are a lot of knives on planes again. >> stephanie: let's talk about the republican's latest [ bleep ] fight. john mccain and lindsey graham, his southern belle and rand paul. >> the party of ronald reagan is the party that believes that we should have peace through strength. that's the best way to prevent these things. i'm of the party of ronald reagan. and there's been a debate in our party for years and years about whether we should withdraw to fortress america or not. but to say we're

interventionsists is a mislabeling and absolutely false. we're for a strong america. we believe that's the best way to prevent war rather than a weakened military which many of my colleagues now support who are -- isolationists which goes all the way back to post-world war i. >> stephanie: fight fight fight, fight shove each other into the bleachers. gingrich is siding with rand paul. he said i don't know what's happened to john mccain. >> join the club. >> stephanie: he said he's really disappointed. he was saddened by john mccain's response to rand paul. i'm disappointed and saddened by it. >> hal: good. >> ha ha! >> stephanie: conservatives are flipping out over john mccain and lindsey graham. such disarray. hours after they slammed rand paul, conservatives are turning on them as the republican party's old -- mccain accused paul of using the filly buster

to fire up the libertarian kids. it was embarrassing said a senior republican aide. it looks like two guys whose time have passed. they're the only people in the room who don't know it yet. freedom works were already asking supporters to sign a petition demanding mccain apologize to paul. fight, fight fight. >> hal: in mccain's defense he wasn't actually -- he was quoting the "wall street journal." he was riding. i think they hated the filibuster because they hate speaking unscripted for any length of time because they know they'll say things like the locker in ways was a good idea. that was rand paul's big slip. >> stephanie: 29 minutes after the hour. wonder woman next! [ screaming ] that raised the bar for excellence.

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>> announcer: stephanie miller. >> radio contact is sufficient. no need to extend your middle finger. >> stephanie: it is "the stephanie miller show." okay everybody calm down. >> i can't. >> stephanie: 34 minutes after the hour. we're having a collective freakout over our childhood hero, wonder woman who is also a fabulous singer and performing in l.a. this weekend. lynda carter joins us now. good morning lynda. >> good morning. >> stephanie: oh, my god. >> we're all blacking out. i'm getting light-headed. >> you guys are so funny. >> stephanie: here is a sad little story. when i was a park leader, a

teenager, all of the kids used to call me wonder woman because i had a vague resemblance and a very -- you know, kind of b grade kind of way. >> she looked like your stuntwoman. >> stephanie: a really ugly stuntwoman double. we love you. melissa fitzgerald is here. >> hello, i love you. >> hello. >> stephanie: hal sparks has to tell this story really quick. when he was 67. >> i called -- when he was 7. >> i called. you called 35 numbers trying to reach you on the set of the show because i had a mad crush on you. >> that is so adorable. >> it was brutal. i got in so much trouble because the long distance calls. >> oh, no. >> but they were very forgiving about it ultimately. literally, i called -- i made it all the way to set pretending to be your lawyer's kid and it was my birthday. this is the story i made up. i told them it was my birthday and my dad said i could call

because he was your lawyer and they were like she's really busy right now but i'm sure she would wish you happy birthday. >> that is one of the more amazing stories i've ever heard. i've heard a lot of stories. >> i don't think i've heard one like that. >> stephanie: wonder woman the untold superhero of american heroines. you and the bionic woman are going to be on. the story of female empowerment melissa and i our whole generation of women grew up watching you and loving you. >> it was kind of a phenomenon and it is long -- it always kind of amazes me it was so long ago and yet it really does evoke some great memories for people. it really -- there is a accepts

of empowerment there. i think it is very cool. >> stephanie: it is a position at this role model for little girls. that feeling when you talk about female empowerment one episode when an entire building fell on you and you came out and your makeup is perfect. i was like i can do anything. >> that was movie magic. >> stephanie: the film goes behind the scenes with you lindsey wagner, others who offer -- it is sort of a counter point to the whole male super hero genre right? >> yes, it is. you know what's interesting, i don't know why they've not been able to crack the code -- if we did it in the '70s, there's no reason why they can't do that again. on the big screen and make a nice little franchise out of it. >> stephanie: yeah. >> it has always baffled me. i think it is because they try to -- they try to impose a guy

superhero on to a female -- they did give my alter ego character things to do, you know. and she wasn't -- certainly as the series went on, i just couldn't stand that whimpering, you know, alter ego. totally powerless. >> stephanie: without your satin tights. >> right right. and so she became -- and that was also part of her. people forget that it was -- you know, that there were two characters. but i just -- you know, i changed it. they've allowed me to. >> stephanie: i have to say i didn't realize -- i just read an interview with you how political you've been. someone asked you i'm sure you've seen all of the comparison in the media and republicans of sarah palin to

wonder woman. how do you feel about that? you said don't get me started. she's the anti-wonder woman. judgmental and dictatorial telling people how they should live their lives. that's not what wonder woman is about. hillary clinton is a lot more like wonder woman than sarah palin. that had to have just killed them. >> i got a little blow back from that. when i did that, that was right at the height -- that was when she was first out. first announced. everyone agreed with me a year later. >> stephanie: you said great stuff in the interview. it goes with what's going on. you said i hate this demonization of everyone in one position. you're unamerican because you're against the war. it is such [ bleep ] i love that wonder woman dropped the f bomb. fear is a finite way of thinking about god. very little god that way.

i think god's bigger. i don't presume to know his or her mind. we all remember that. we were all demonized if you thought the iraq war was a bad idea. >> absolutely. we weren't patriots. >> stephanie: the iraq war was a bad idea and sarah palin was no wonder woman. >> so glad you're on my side. >> absolutely. >> stephanie: my dad ran with barry goldwater in '64. you come from a family of republicans in arizona. melissa comes from a republican family as well. >> it is interesting. arizona is really not as republican as it used to be. you know, it's kind of going to a purple state. but yeah. everyone in my family is a republican. and -- well not everyone. nephew that is right-minded. [ laughter ]

i think i'm a -- i don't think i'm -- far far left. i think most people are in the middle but when you get lied to. i told my brother i said the only news -- if the only news i ever watched was fox news, i would be mad as hell. >> stephanie: that's what they're spreading fear and hate. >> fear and hate. it started way back with lee -- >> stephanie: atwater. >> atwater. he was kind of the architect of the rove -- >> stephanie: awhile back, you said the only problem i really have is the spreading of hate by the right wing. the spreading of hate, i don't get it. i don't understand it. it is inexplicable to me not to understand wanting the best for people. if you disagree politically but you know i think it is bad for

mental health to listen to hate 24/7. you say give them a break president obama. you point out he supercharged a whole generation of people. most americans, you know, want the best for our country and our president, right? >> well, yeah. to want it to fail and to have people that are in important political positions, you know, that are helping run the country like mitch mcconnell to have said we just -- we're just going to defeat it. we don't have to do anything. we don't have to have a plan. we just have to say no. >> stephanie: right. >> we just have to obstruct. we don't have to have a plan. we don't need to do it. we just need the white house back. i think that there's some -- there may be some interesting people challenging his re-election. >> stephanie: right. when you say people -- that's right. we've been talking about this. ashley judd. >> yeah. >> stephanie: melissa may run

for congress at some point. it is a generation of people that grew up -- >> let me know and i'll contribute. >> how exciting. >> really. i just think that when you have -- you know, in the '80s -- in the '60s, '70s, '80s when women were fighting for title nine and that sort of thing, you know, we still don't have an e.r.a., you realize that. but that it now -- there are so many women in there but it is still not enough. but it's not against men. it is all -- i know so many great women in politics that just have killer husbands. they've got great husbands. so it is really not about -- it is not about empowerment for women over men. it is in addition to. >> stephanie: i just met elizabeth warren and her husband in d.c. for the inauguration.

that's a perfect example, you know. >> right. >> stephanie: i thought i had a brief conversation with them and i thought that's what you're talking about is a partnership. wow, this must be like being reincarnated in the next lifetime. he stead is our next adventure. >> paul and nancy pelosi. paul is a very charismatic guy. very handsome, charming, charismatic. they have a bunch of children. he's got his own thing. she raised their kids. you know, he's got a -- she's very smart. i would say you don't see a lot of stupid women in politics but i have to take that back. laugh -- [ laughter ] >> michele bachmann. >> stephanie: yea, lynda carter is getting in trouble on my show. press for me. >> i don't know how she got re-elected. >> go to the district. you'll understand. [ laughter ] >> don't stay there.

don't do your singing in minneapolis proper. >> i have nothing against her personally but she just should go and get an education. >> stephanie: there you go. female empowerment. >> be informed. it is like -- man talk about a silver foot in the mouth. great line. >> stephanie: ann richards. speaking of wonder women. you're in addition, a fabulous singer. i'm going to see you. kathleen madigan we're both going to go. march 14th through the 16th at the catalina club in hollywood. >> the jazz club is on sunset on east highland. whatever direction that is. and it is a funky old place that is a blast. it is so cool. we usually -- it is usually kind of filled to capacity. and i've got my great big band. i even added a guy.

louis who has been percussionist of the year for -- i don't know how many years but it is a lot. and he is so -- you know, these two drummers that i actually worked both of these guys. you know. back in the day when i was doing vegas shows and things. and so we've got a lot of new music and a lot of wonderful things and it is a fun show. we just have a blast. >> stephanie: i can't wait. i know you're off to d.c. in new york. >> when people say cabaret i wouldn't say you've been to my show right? >> stephanie: i have not. i'm so excited i can't wait to see it this weekend. >> well, i almost think of a cabaret show as a low-key songs and -- >> leaning half drunk against the piano. >> we have people up. it is like a big party. >> stephanie: i cannot wait. >> people talk to me.

they say hey we have a -- >> it is just -- there is a -- it is great. we really just have -- the people i work with are so cool. these are all studio musicians. mostly out of l.a. i mean nashville. but they've -- between them, i would have no idea, maybe into certainly many hundreds if not thousands of grammy winning records. >> stephanie: wow. >> platinum records they've played and sung on. they're really cool. >> stephanie: i cannot wait. if you would -- we're so excited and also my set that i'm talking to you from looks exactly like the shorts you wore on wonder woman. we'll see you this weekend. >> make sure that my p.r. guy sends you backstage. >> stephanie: yeah. >> if you're there early and sometimes the end of the show is a little bit harder but pop your

head in. >> stephanie: i will. the more excited i get the farther out my front teeth get and i get really inappropriate. >> don't trip. >> what is the guy's name? the actor that played the mask, you know. >> jim carry. >> jim carrey. >> wonder woman lynda carter. thank you so much, lynda. what a thrill to meet you. >> bye. [ screaming ] >> she's the coolest person ever! >> stephanie: okay. >> and still ludicrously gorgeous. >> stephanie: she looks the same. >> she was a d.c. wife. she was married to a congressman. >> stephanie: we didn't get to that. 48 minutes after the hour. back with the remaining moments of hot brie in the city as we continue on "the stephanie miller show." >> it even vibrates like real. >> it's "the stephanie miller show." documentaries that are real, gripping, current.

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♪ i am strong ♪ ♪ i am invincible ♪ ♪ i am woman ♪ >> stephanie: we're in a wonder woman superhero frenzy. a feminist frenzy. >> for the record, i have never sung this into a hairbrush into a mirror. i think i'm the only person who can say that. >> stephanie: this hour brought to you by therabreath. knocks out bad breath and therabreath is available at target and walgreens. i go everywhere with melissa fitzgerald and she does not have mints. all she has is a pocket ray nagin in her car. >> search for gum.

>> check out the -- on facebook, lynda carter has a page. it is official lynda lynda with a y. >> beautiful. >> go to lynda carter sings.com and they have clips of her songs. she's awesome. >> lynda carter.com. you can bookmark that. >> stephanie: all right. >> i can't wait to see the pbs show. >> the documentary on wonder woman, female superheroes on pbs next month. >> there is a really good one on now, makers, women who had leadership roles in creating our country. really good. >> stephanie: fabulous. all right. >> lindsey wagner in that special, does she explain why she could hear through walls but she had to move her hair out of the way? >> stephanie: she had to move the hair. then she could hear. >> her hair was made of asbestos. >> stephanie: like a lead

curtain. >> she had mesothieloma. >> jeby. >> will never be president. >> some people say that obviously you're very proud of your family and proud of their accomplishments but the question is would it be a political burden. i think it is fair to say that when your brother left the presidency, he was somewhat unpopular. we looked around the most recent poll shows that 46% view favorably. 47% view him unfavorably. do you think there is any bush baggage? do you think that would be a problem? >> no. i don't think there's any bush baggage at all. i love my father. i'm proud of his accomplishments. i'm proud to be a bush. if i run for president, it is not because of something in my dna that compels me to do it. it is the right thing to do for my family. the conditions are right and that i have something to over. >> stephanie: someone with a lot of bush baggage.

[ ♪ circus ♪ ] he's got bush baggage. >> there is no way. >> it is a low bar known as the smart bush. >> he's not anymore. he's flip-flopped on immigration. >> stephanie: you're going to see your nephew. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] he's painted 50 dogs. i painted dogs. >> only 43 of them bit him. >> stephanie: that's what he's doing. clinton is busy saving the world. he's painting dogs. it doesn't surprise me. >> stephanie: it is a labradoodle. what do you think? georgia artist is his art teacher. do you think laura puts his things on the refrigerator with a magnet? george, that's the best schnauzer ever! thank you! he said he's since turned to landscapes after he painted his 50 dogs. >> self-portrait nudes. >> in the shower like almost

like an iphone picture you take of yourself to put on your -- >> stephanie: your junk. >> to put on your zoosk profile. >> show what kind of guy iage. i am. >> stephanie: he will go down in history books as a great artist. [ whatever! ] >> i'm going to go with the chances of that are as high as jeb bush becoming president. >> i don't even know why we did the second round of how w even got considered because i thought we fought a revolutionary war to avoid having our government pass from father to son. we're really going to say in a country of 330 million people, the best person to run has to be that guy's son because he did it before. we want the country run like every middle management jerk whose dad owns the company. he got his job because of